Emphasizing that the practice was just more evidence of journalists’ bias against him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated Thursday that he was sick and tired of the mainstream media always attempting to place his words into some kind of context.


edit: as pointed out in a comment by /u/magic_lobster_party who paid more attention to the page than I did, this is actually from 2016 and was just recently resurfaced to me while I was browsing the site (but it is, unfortunately, still relevant)

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    “Alternative facts” was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s false statement about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump’s first inauguration as President of the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts